Thomas Malory
c. 1415 – 1471 · Person
Warwickshire knight, MP and repeatedly jailed felon who wrote Le Morte d'Arthur, the definitive English Arthurian epic, probably in prison during the Wars of the Roses.
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More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1415
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)